The 10 Best Get Paid to Write Sites

This is a list of some of the best places to get paid to write at. These are the best sites that have been around for years and have paid thousands of writers each month for their hard work. Take a look at the list to see which ones you might want to write for. I hope you enjoy the list!

Monthly Income Report: January 2010

I know that it has been a while since I started one of these but I have been really this past few months and have not had time to assess my online work. But, it will be done this month and I hope I will learn from the many mistakes that I have had. I have made several changes to how I work and what I do online and off. Some of them have helped me through a lot and some have not. So, I think I will assess what I have done this month, show you my earnings and then say some ideas I will do for the future.

In the month of December I happened to be on of the unlucky persons to be shut out of the Google Adsense account. So I can no longer make money online using the famous google adsense. I was pretty mad at first but I looked at my earnings and discovered I really wasn't making anything from Adsense anyway. I also can focus more on a few sites to make money rather than several. I will no longer write for sites like Infobarrel because you can only make money through Adsense. I think the adsense shutdown has helped me in getting more focused on a few sites rather than several.

Another crazy thing that happened in the past few months was the launch of eHow's UK site. That site has caused more trouble for us American eHow earnings than ever before. In January, several earners and writers of ehow saw there earnings decrease day after day. People began writing more and more in the forums and soon Rich (one of the community managers) finally wrote what was happening. Basically,eHow was taking out U.S. articles and posting them on the UK site, that sounds good right? Wrong! Because the thing they did not mention was that people clicking on ads on the UK version of your article did not earn you money. So they were taking our articles which have been making us and eHow money for years and not paying us when they posted them on the UK site. People began to protest until eHow got there act together, they soon took all the U.S. articles off the UK site. And, soon we might even get paid (or hopefully reimbursed) for having articles on the UK site.

I started working on triond and squidoo this month as well. I only made a whopping .67 cents but I think I may need to do a bit more research on triond to see what really makes money from it. That goes the same for Squidoo because I have not worked on anything like it before. I want to increase my earnings on sites like eHow and Bukisa before I start on any other site though. I did posts a few articles and Squidoo lenses just to get an idea of each site. But I will do more research and write fro each of them exclusively as my earnings increase.

If you have been following my blog for a bit you may have noticed that I changed it a lot. I have a new wordpress them for it and I think it works better and looks a bit more professional than my basic blogspot ugly blue background. I hope this will attract more visitors and keep them on the site for longer. I think I am becoming more satisfied with the look for the blog but it still may change as my knowledge increases.

Another thing I really started getting into was Amazon Associates. I really promoted amazon links a lot this month to see how I did. I may need to do a lot more research on how to place and where to place an Amazon link so I can really maximize my profit on the site. But anyways, here is my earnings for January:

eHow: $84.93
Triond: $0.67
Bukisa: $6.23
Amazon: $4.50
Regage: 9.33 (total)

Total: $105.66


Not much but I think I need to make a lot of changes this month if I want to increase my earnings. Theproblem that I have had ever since I started was having a game plan before I got to 'work.' If I don't have one tend to get lazy and never get anything accomplished. That is why I have become organized when I start working online. My goals are very specific and it is not in terms of money. Instead, I plan on working in terms of tasks. That will give me something to do every day when I get up and go to the computer. On the weekdays, I plan on writing 2 articles a day on eHow and Bukisa. And, I will also bookmark 5 posts on sites like redgage. Along with that, I need to finish reposting the articles on site like Xomba and Infobarrel to sites like Triond or Bukisa because I can't earn from Adsense. But I will only do that on the weekends. I will also be doing some work on the weekends. That will also include 2 articles a day and 10 bookmarks because I have more time on my hands. So:

Weekdays: 2 articles a day, 5 bookmarks a day
Weekends: 2 articles a day, 10 bookmarks a day

This should keep me on a schedule and really help me focus on the 'work' that I have to do rather than the money. If I do the work I really automatically see the money come in. It is simple as that and I should see some improvements in how I work.

Hope this helps you in making money online. Good Luck. I'll try to keep you posted.

Increase Your Bukisa Earnings

I have been a member of Bukisa ever since the Summer of 2009. I do enjoy writing and posting content on the site but I am having trouble making a significant amount of money each money. Don't get me wrong, I have been paid by Bukisa several times and it is a great addition to earning passive income. However, I want to get my earnings much higher than they are. Which is why I am writing this article. It is very important to understand something before you can utilize it to the best of your ability. Which is why I think I have taken enough time writing and earning with Bukisa in order to understand how you can earn more with Bukisa.

A very important thing you should remember is how you make money online using Bukisa. As of now, you can only make money through page views. That is why page views are going to be the only thing you should focus on when writing for a site like Bukisa. Don't worry about writing to get a click on the ads because you will not earn anything from it, at least for now. It's important you know what you need to write about so you can get a good amount of page views.

First, you need to make sure what you write about is popular enough that people (several people) will want to read. No need talking about something that only your friends joke about because it will not earn you squat at Bukisa. The best things t to write about is what is trending. What ever is the big talk that is happening in pop culture, world issues or anything that a huge ratio of people might be interested in.

Things to keep in mind are: is the topic interesting, relevant, entertaining or informative. When you are thinking about writing a bukisa article you should keep these four attributes in mind. If they have all four of them you are on the right track to having a great article. You don't have to have all four to write a popular article but at least 2 of them should be related to your article. You could use a great program like Google Trends to find ideas on topics you might want to write about. Or you could simply look at the front page of a newspaper or online and see what the big news scoop is. You shouldn't write news articles just use the news to get ideas on an article you can write about. For example, maybe there's a news article on how expensive apple laptops are getting. Then you could write an article about where you can find cheap apple computers.

Another thing that is important when writing Bukisa article is to place related content at the end of the article. The key to getting money from Bukisa is by how many page views you receive which is why it's important to keep readers on your articles. If you have 2 articles about how to make money online post it them on bukisa and put one in a related content section of your article. More views equals higher earnings.

Always use the social networking system for you articles. Bukisa has an OK traffic rank but it can use all the help it can get. Join sites like StumbleUpon and Twitter and post a link of your article on them. It will increase your earnings drastically if you do.

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How to Write Articles On Bukisa: Types

Bukisa is still a very difficult site for me in terms of making money. The problem is that you need to figure out what type of article you need to write for the site. Many sites have certain types of articles that each site has. There is one type of article to write on eHow, which is How-to articles. I found an article on the official Bukisa Blog that has the Highest Earner on Bukisa giving tips on how to write and earn. In 2009 he made $2.527.10 with only 198 published online. It is a very inspiring article which you should read. Basically, he tells us that you should write articles that are interesting, entertaining, educational and relevant. If they have atleast 2 or more than you should go right ahead and write about it. If not, than you are wasting your time. If you haven't yet, I suggest you sign-up for a free account at Bukisa and start getting paid to write.

I looked through a lot of his articles I discovered that he has a lot of list type articles. I would say the 3/4 of all his articles are lists about "The Worlds Fastest..." or "The Worlds Largest..." One of his articles is "The World's Fastest Trains." And he has about 10 or 20 trains which are the fastest trains in the world. He simply does the research, includes a picture of it and then writes a paragraph or two on each train. It's a very simple formula, but a very good one. Therefore, I do believe that taking advantage of the List format is important for earning on sites like Bukisa. The only way you earn from bukisa is from how many page views you recieve. The list format or the "Worlds Greatest..." format is a great way to get visitors. They learn something and who doesn't want to read about something cool like "The Most Expensive Cars."

I believe I am going to take advantage of this and see how it works out. I do not believe I am going to make as much money, at first, as this Nobert Bermosa because now that the "Secret" is out many people will copy his advice. I do hope Nobert the best in 2010 but I am definitely going to take advantage of the "Best of" type of articles. The great thing about this is because you can have so many possibilities for articles of that nature. I'll keep you up-dated on how this works out for me. Hopefully this idea will give you a better idea on how to make money online from Bukisa.

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Xomba: How to Earn Money with Xomblurbs

I wanted to write this article about Xomblurbs because I feel there is still a lot of things I don't know about Xomba. I have been a member for a few months now and have become aware of some of the top earners to the site. Some of these writers make over $1,000 in adsense income. Keep in mind, this is all residual income so even after they stop writing on Xomba (as long as Xomba is still running) they will still earn that money. I have donw some researched on Xomba and discovered a great deal about how to make money with them. Especially with using the Xomblurbs. Here is what I have discovered.

First of all, Xomblurbs are the short 50-word bookmarks you can write and include a link to whatever website you are promoting. It is a very easy 'article' to write and you can add a web url. If you want to learn more about Xomba read my post about here. Anyway, I found that the majority of content contributed by the top earners consisted of Xomblurbs. Some of these earners have a few hundred Xombytes (basic articles) and over 1,000 xomblurbs. As I said before, these writers make over $1,000 in residual income so they must be doing something correctly. After doing some research on Xomblurbs I found what are some good things you can post a Xomblurb about. Here they are:


Bookmark Your Articles From Other Sites:
I found that many writers on Xomba are bookmarking their articles from other websites like Ehow, Bukisa or Info Barrel. This is a great idea because you can earn from two sites rather than one. You willl earn a backlink for your article which search engines love. The backlink will increase your search engine optimization and will rank your articles higher on search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Also, you still have the opportunity to earn clicks from the ads placed on your Xomblurb bookmark. Some online earnings shake their heads when they see others bookmarking there own articles. Quite frankly, you have to make that decision for yourself.

Bookmark Amazon Affiliate Links:
I tremendous idea that I discovered a few days ago was that you can bookmark Amazon affiliate contextual ads. Bookmarking these is one of the best ideas because you don't have to worry about niche topics. If you were posting on a blog or website, your ads should be related to the topics you write about. However, if you are writing a post on Xomba you can post any Amazon product without worry. If you want more information about this you should check out my precious post. 

Bookmark Coupons:
A great number of earners on Xomba post a great deal of coupons on the site. I would say that 3/4 of the content of one high earner simply bookmarks coupons. You may think that there may not be a great amount of money in doing this but there is. Also, keep in mind that there are ways you can earn money from getting readers to get the coupon. So the writer who is posting these coupons will earn from both Xomba and the coupon site. The great thing about bookmarking coupons is that they are easy to post and many people don't mind saving a $1 on products. You will be surprised how many page views you will get from posting a coupon about saving $1 on ice cream. Give it a try.

Bookmark Your Blog Posts:
If you own a blog you know how important it is to market that blog. Why not earn from two sites by bookmarking all of your blog posts. The more blog posts you have the better. You can still earn from Adsense by way of Xomba and if you have ads on your own blog you could earn more from there as well. Doing this will give you a backlink which is helpful for any blog.

Make Money on Amazon Affiliate with Xomba

So I was looking through Xomba getting ready to edit a few more of my articles. I got distracted by this post that one of the administrators posted. It was nothing too serious it was just a post about some of the changes that will occur with Xomba. It was all just to help Xomba writers increase their earning potential. Anyway, I saw a comment that asked about if it was fine to post Amazon Affiliate links in their articles and the admin (Nick) said it was fine. After I read that my brain really started spinning on how much potential could have with this.

You can post an infinite amount of Amazon affiliate links and and infinite amount of Xomba articles. I realized that I could post so many affiliate links and still earn a great deal of money from Xomba and Amazon at the same time. You can either post a short 50 word xomblurb about the product you are promoting or a long xombyte. You can post a small xomblurb (by the way, if you have know idea what a xomblurb or what xomba is to begin with, I suggest you read about what Xomba is by clicking here) about amazon products on sale, bestselling items or any special offers and then post your amazon link.


You can also post a Xombyte that relates to one or two Amazon products. For example, you could write about "how to buy a flatscreen tv that you'll enjoy.'' You can write about the difference between a plasma and an LCD screen, what features do they have, which screen is better for certain viewing options (some people may want to play more video games and action movies while another cutomer may watch more sports). After that you can post your Amazon affiliate link for a good lcd and a good plasma television. One of the best parts about being an Amazon Associate is that who clicked on your link doesn't have to buy THAT product in order to earn you commission. As long as that person buys anything (and Amazon knows how to get a visitor to buy something) you will earn a commission for it. And you will earn a commission on every product they buy in that session.

Make Money On Triond: My First Impression

I signed up with Triond a few weeks ago and wanted to give you some of my first impressions of the site. I have checked out the site and taken a good look at the forum section to see some of the people who are dedicated Triond users. I also checked out some of the articles that are posted from Triond just to see what kind of articles they accept. I have learned a lot from them and wanted to share what I have learned so far.

A great thing about this site is that you can create a very nice profile page. You can add all the sites you write on as well as post your twitter account and blog information. Your profile includes all the articles, videos, pictures and audio you have posted. You also will have the chance to add a resource box which you can add you blog page, affiliate links or anything you would like. The best part about having a resource box at Triond is they have multiple sites that they post on (I'll get to that later on in the article) so that will help increase search engine optimization.

Triond is a bit different but still has the same goal of most online residual income writing websites. Triond does not pay their writers anything upfront for their articles. But they do receive income for how ever many page vies they earn. They also say that the writers will earn a percentage of the income when someone buys a product from the advertisers. You will receive 50% of the advertisers revenue which is a good amount. Also, Triond has just recently (As of November 22, 2009) integrated itself with Google Adsense. Therefore, you will be earning from Google Adsense as well as the other Triond advertising companies. In this way, you will get paid by Google in your adsense account (so you have to wait until you reach the $100 minimum) and by Triond. Triod will pay you through Paypal, check or Western Union. If you do not have a paypal account I suggest you get one just for this site. The minimum to cashout for a check or Western Union is $50.00 while the minimum to cashout for paypal is an easy 0.50 cents.

The way the publish your articles is quite different from other sites like eHow and Xomba. Triond actually has a number of sites that are owned by Triond. They own about 18 different sites and they all have articles published by different Triond writes. They wanted to do is like this to make each site very niche and specific for the users visiting them. Some of the sites that Triond owns are Webupon, Writinghood, HealthMad, Quazen and Gomestic. Webupon covers everything under new technologies and web-based applications, Gomestic is a site about home and garden, HealthMad is about health related topics, etc. So in a way, it helps with search engines because each site is very specific. However, you will still have to promote your articles if you want to increase your earnings.

Triond is starting to become a great site to write and make money online. With the new Google Adsense integration, resource box, profile page niche sites and helpful forum Triond is improving. I saw Triond a few months ago but wasn't interested in writing for the site. But now since I have signed up and read through some of the improvements (referral system and especially Google Adsense) I think writers can start making a decent amount of residual income each month. I will keep you updated when I start to really focus on Triond and write a good amount of articles on the site. Hope you enjoyed the post.

Question: What are your thoughts on Triond?

How to Come up with Article Ideas

There are some days when you wake up and sit at your computer to work online when you can write about 20 different topics. Other days you can not think of a single idea to write about. I am writing this article to help me and anyone else on how to come up with ideas to write about. This article came out of a comment I received on one of my blog posts and because one day I just could not figure out what to write. This should be a learning experience for both you and me. Through brainstorming and browsing articles on the internet I cam up with a good solution:

Write Down Topics You Like:
So the first thing I usually do when I am thinking about writing articles online are subjects I like. This is very easy because if you are human you know that you like certain things more than others. Maybe you like to write about basketball, bugs, computers, popular culture, fashion, or what ever else you LIKE to talk about.

Write Down The Subtopics of These Topics:
Once you have your topics try and think of subtopics that you could write about. This is good because you can increase the amount of articles you write and have a focused article which will rank higher on the search engines. Say you want to write about basketball; you could divide that into topics about how to play good defense, shooting from the three-throw line, dribbling, being a team player, how to practice layups, how to shake a defender...There are so many subtopics you can think about writing for your main ones. It may take a bit more time but you will benefit from doing this.
 
Write Down Topics You Want to Know About:
Everyone wants to know about something sooner or later. Think about some topics that you want to learn about but never did. You could be killing two birds with one stone with this method. It can be something as easy as 'how to have good table manners' to 'how to mod a computer desktop.' What ever the topic might be, you will have to do some research on it if you want to make your article any good. You don't want to take too much time on researching or you will have no time writing the article. You should spend about 20 to 30 minutes researching a topic and then start writing. As I stated above, you can even write about subtopics of the subjects you have picked.

Use Google Trends:
If you are really running out of ideas you should give Google Trends a try. It is a program on Google that will show you a list of the top most searched topics of the day and any day previous to that day. The search engine topics will fluctuate throughout the entire day and may drop off at any time. That is why it is so unpredictable and some topics may never be high on the search engines the very next day. So in a way, some of your articles may be a one hit wonder which is not ideal if you want to make residual income online.

Question: How do you come up with ideas for your articles?

Focus on One or Several Tasks When Making Money Online?

As I have said, I have been working a lot on editing my articles online. I want to finish editing all of my articles before I continue to write new content. I have been reading a lot about making money online and how important it is to edit them. I feel like I have upgraded since I first starting working on the internet. However, I have been trying to edit all of my articles on every site as well as bookmark articles. I thought that it was a good idea to do for a while. But after a while I realized that I couldn't keep track of what I was doing and what articles a edited or bookmarked. Therefore, I think it may be better to do a lot more work on one site than try to fix all of the sites at the same time. I know there are some people out there who believe in multitasking but I can only do it for so long until my brain shuts down.

So the better thing (for me) to do is focus on one site at a time so I can finish this editing process of my online work. I plan on editing on several sites that I have been using. Here is a list of the sites I will be editing and what I plan to do with them. I'm writing this to give myself a clear game plan and so you can get an idea for editing your articles too. Here it is:

Ehow:
Edit Keywords for search engine optimization
Add 5 articles in the Resource Box to increase Backlinks
Bookmark articles at Xomba and Redgage

Xomba:
Edit Keywords for search engine optimization
Add related articles at the end to increase Backlinks
Add Xomba referral link at the end of each article
Bookmark Xombytes (xomba articles) at Redgage

Bukisa:
Edit Keywords for search engine optimization
Add related articles at the end to increase Backlinks
Add Bukisa referral link at the end of each article
Bookmark articles at Xomba and Redgage

Redgage:
Edit bookmarked content's description section

Monthly Income Report: October 2009

Here is my next post about my earnings that I make online. In these posts I write about what I did in that month, my earnings and what I plan on doing to increase my earnings next month. I know I didn't post my September Income report which was a bad idea on my part. The thing is I haven't been able to do a lot of work online because I've been preoccupied offline. But I'm here and trying to make up for a lost month of none income reporting. I really hope you enjoy this post on my monthly income. It is probably one of my favorite things to post about.

Keep in mind though, I did make about the same amount of income in September that I did in August. So there was no huge increase or decrease in earnings for the month of September. I also didn't really do anything new in terms of tactics to increase my earnings (which is probably why I earned the same amount of income).

October was a fine month for me and I got a good amount of work accomplished. The main thing that I have been doing for this month was more on the editing side. I have been tweaking and fixing all of my articles online rather than posting new ones. I already have a great deal of articles spread throughout the Internet so I was having trouble coming to grips with why my income did not increase. I have over 500 pages of content on the web as of now but did not make a great deal of money. Some writers say you should be making at least a dollar a day on each of your articles. As you will tell by this report I am far from that number. So I began to browse and read through many successful online writer blog's and articles. I just wanted to see what they were doing that I was not really getting. I am still a bit of a noob when it comes to online writing so I am always looking for helpful hints.

There were a few things that I saw and read that I clearly was not doing. I have been bookmarking many of my articles on Xomba and Redgage but that is not the only thing I should be doing. I saw that many writers also post related articles at the bottom of the Ehow articles, post there referral link on Xomba articles, post comments on other Redgage content and a few other things that I was not accomplishing. So I decided to edit all of my existing articles before I continue with new posts. I think I can really boost my earnings by at least $200 every month if I do this correctly. Before I get into that let me show you my income report:

Earnings Report for October:

Ehow: $93.56
Bukisa: $8.16
Adsense (Xomba, Infobarrel, Hubpages): $7.18
Amazon Associates: $0.00
CashCrate: $21.03
TreasureTrooper: $0.00

Total: 129.93 (1.02 increase)

I made about a dollar increase this month from August. I know it is really not a lot of money at all. But it is an on going process that I really have a lot of faith (through hard work) in.

What I Learned In October:

I learned that you have to work smart as well as hard. You can't just post hundreds of articles on a site and expect to rake in the money. Especially if this is your first time on 'the job.' All of the great investors and millionaires (Rockefeller) started from nothing but worked hard to achieve an empire. The thing is I need to work smart now that I have a good amount of articles on the world wide web.





Goals for November:

This month I am going to really continue on editing all of my articles on the internet. I have a lot of things to tweak about them that I am going to outline here. I am going to edit my Ehow, Bukisa and Xomba articles. The main thing I will do is post related content at the end of all of my articles and tweak my keywords. Also, at the end of my Bukisa and Xomba articles I will post my referral link so I can increase my network. I am also going to continue bookmarking all of my articles on Xomba and Redgage. So here it is:

Edit Articles For:
Ehow (Related Content, Keywords)
Xomba (Related Content, Keywords, Referral Link)
Bukisa (Related Content, Keywords, Referral Link)

Bookmark Articles For:
Ehow
Xomba
Bukisa
Hubpages
Infobarrel

I hope you enjoyed my post. I will try to update my blog more often and not have that two month hiatus again. Leave comments about what you think and if I should change any of my tactics.

Xomba: Experiment Update

As I wrote in my post about How to Increase Google Adsense Earnings on Xomba and Infobarrel I said I would write about more topics on the sites. I have started with writing on Xomba and have written a very broad bank of topics already. I wanted to do this experiment to see if I could really increase my earnings faster and earn more. It's only been a few days but I wanted to give you an update on my progress with my Adsense earnings so far.

I started this experiment about 4 days ago. I wanted to write on more topics and take not of how I do. Well, I am very happy with my earnings increase all ready. I have been earning a lot more clicks and more money online with Adsense already. I know it will just keep increasing as my topics become wider. As long as I do enough research with my articles and write well about the topics I can gain page views and more money online.

I just wanted to let you know that and keep you updated on the progress as my work continues to expand and earn. I hope this will help you make even more money online with what ever you are doing. The key is to not keep your eggs in one basket. Why write about one topic when you can write about several? Increasing your topics (baskets) will increase your page views which can earn you more money online (eggs).

Hope you enjoyed the post.

My Online Article Earning Goals

I've been thinking about my online goals and what I want to achieve with them. I have joined many writing sites and really want to earn a great deal of income with all of them. I know that it is important to write out your goals so you have something to reach for. Therefore, I am writing this to really find a gameplan for what I want to achieve in the short term goals. So here it goes:

Bukisa: It's a fairly new site that I joined a few months back. I am starting to see an increase in earnings but nothing that really has me jumping for joy. My overall goal that I want to achieve by the end of September would be to earn 1,000 page views a day. As of now, it's hard to get over 100 page views. However, with my new experiment on how to earn more money online with article writing I can know I can start really seeing those earnings grow. I've seen many Bukisa articles (including mine) reach the front page of many search engines. So the site is very popular and capable of earning me money online.

Bukisa Goal: 1,000 page views a day by October 1, 2009

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Xomba: I am really enjoying my earnings from Xomba. I have only been a member and an avid writer for about a month and have already earned over 20 dollars. So I know I can reach my goals of earning 5 dollars a day by the end of September. I am already earning a few cents every day and with my experiment of increase my categories I know I can earn a lot more. I will be writing mostly Xombytes and linking a few articles from my eHow and Bukisa site to help with backlinks and increase search engine rankings.

Xomba Goal: 5 dollars a day by October 1, 2009


Infobarrel: I very nice site that I just started posting articles on. I have actually seen quite a few of my articles end up on the first page of search engines which is great. I am still getting a hang of what Infobarrel accepts for articles so I need to get more use to the site. However, my page views are really great on the site and I have just read a lot of positive feedback with it. I know I can earn about 5 dollars a day using Infobarrel but it may take a bit longer due to the site being fairly new. I have been writing mostly blank articles but I think I will start writing how-to articles. They have better ad placement with how-to articles and I can definitely increase the amount of clicks with it.

Infobarrel Goal: 5 dollars a day by November 1, 2009

eHow: eHow is the first site I started publishing articles on. It is really a great site that has everything a first time writer online needs. With a great forum section full of members that are willing to help you make money online with eHow you can't go wrong. I am already earning over a hundred dollars a month with eHow which is fine. But I know I can earn over 1,000 dollars with all of the success stories I hear from other members. I don't plan on making that any time soon but I know I want to make about 10 dollars a day this year. I plan on expanding the categories I write about on the site and tweak a few articles as well. This will really help me achieve my goals on eHow.

eHow Goals: 10 dollars a day by December 1, 2009

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I have my fingers crossed on this. I'll let you know and keep you updated on my progress with my earnings. Hope You enjoyed the post.

Greatly Increase Your Article Earnings

So I have been writing articles online for a few months and there are days when I get writers block. I sometimes can not figure out what to write about and end up sitting at my desk for hours waiting for an idea to pop into my head. As I said in one of my previous post, I want to broaden my topics to earn more page views. If I earn more page views I can earn more money online. However, I just couldn't find out what topics I wanted to write about. Until now.

If you write for any article submission site like Xomba, Infobarrel or Bukisa you know there are several categories on each site. There are categories on Business, Fashion, Electronics and everything in between. Also, they even have sub-categories in a few of the main categories. Well, I just got this idea that can really boost my earnings on my articles. I want to write a few articles on each and every category for each site.

As with stock, making money online is better if you have multiple streams of income. It is much safer and can really help you maximize your income. Well, what if someone were to spread there article topics around just like with stocks? If you have a few articles written about every topic on the site you have the opportunity to reach a broader audience. More people will read your articles which can earn you much more money online.

So, here is the goal: write at least 5 articles on each category on each of my articles sites. And after the categories are done I may write a few articles on each sub-category. That includes Xomba, Infobarrel, Bukisa and eHow. I know it seems like a lot (because it is) but I bet that my earnings will sky rocket after this is done.

Because of the amount of work this will take I am going to have to write for one article site at a time. I am probably going to start with Xomba and once I've finished my work with that site I will move on to the next. This as actually got me very excited to write more articles and make more money on the internet.

I'll keep you updated on my progress and how I do with this little experiment. Hopefully this helped you get ideas what to write about to make money.
 

My First Impression of Hubpages

I just joined another online writing website called Hubpages. I knew about hubpages for a long time but never gave it the time of day. It just seemed like it wasn't my cup of tea. But now I am a member and I hope to make some solid income with the website. I've read a couple of posts that say hubpages has earned them quite the income.

I will need to join other sites if I wanted to make money online with Hubpages. The site kind of works like Infobarrel and Xomba does where you are paid through Adsense. However, at Hubpages you are not just paid through adsense but through Amazon Associates, Ebay, Kontera and Analytics. That is 5 different ways you can earn revenue from hubpages. I'm sure that Hubpages takes a percentage if your earnings but I just don't know how much they take.

I have been browsing Hubpages for a bit and I really see some potential with it. They really know how to have a good layout and really increase a pages Click Through Rate (CTR). I've read on a few earnings reports people are earning a little over $1,000 a month through hubpages. This may include Adsense, Amazon, Ebay and Kontera earnings. I've already learned a bit about Hubpages but want to share it with you when I write my first few hubs.

I do notice the Hubpages ranks fairly high on the search engines. I searched for a couple topics and a few hubs ranked number 1 on a few of them. Therefore, I know I can earn a lot of visitors which will turn into more revenue for me.

Along with the revenue you earn from Hubpages I also noticed something called a Flagship Hub. These hubs are suppose to be written with extreme high quality and Hubpages will pay you $25 directly into your paypal account. That is an easy (well, not too easy) $25 bucks of upfront payment from Hubpages.

I'm going to try and start writing a few hubs later in the month to see how I do. I already have a lot of stuff I need to finish before I can get to hubpages. I'll keep you updated and try and write about a few tips on maximizing your profits with hubpages once I figure it out. Hope you enjoyed the post.

eHow Earnings Experiment - Part 1

So I have been writing for eHow for a while and have seen my earnings grow since my joining. However, I must say that I am not very impressed with what I have earned so far. I have over 450 articles on my eHow account but am only reaching above $100 a month. Keep in mind though that my articles are only about a month old. But I am still averaging about 3-5 dollars a day with eHow. My Xomba and Infobarrel earnings for the first month reach a nice 20 dollars. My articles were not even a month old too. I earned the $20 the same month I joined and started writing on Xomba and Infobarrel. Granted, I am a much better online writing now than was when I started with eHow.

I think I will write a few more eHow articles based off the skills I have learned writing on other get paid to write sites. I may even tweak a few articles I think I can earn a bit more with. I remember reading another blog posts that earned them a great increase in earnings just from increasing a few of there articles on eHow.

My hopes for eHow was to be earning a few hundred dollars by now. I still believe in eHow and it's earnings potential. With all of the success stories and high earners on eHow I know I can achieve my goals of earning $1,000 a month with the site. I am going to write a few more articles on eHow and tweek them for SEO optimization this week. I will keep you updated and how much I increase from that.

In the mean while, I am definitely going to increase my articles on Xomba and Infobarrel. I am very happy with my first month on these sites and hope to increase my earnings by almost double. With a month worth of old articles (older the articles the better) and new ones on the way I know I will see big numbers in my Adsense account.

Hope you enjoyed the post.

Bukisa Experiment: Earning More Daily Page Views

I have been writing for Bukisa for a little over 4 months now and I wanted to really see if it's worth it. On sites like eHow and Xomba my earnings have been greatly increase over the past few weeks but Bukisa still seams to be around the same. While I am earning well over 1,000 page views a day at eHow I can barely reach over 100 a day at Bukisa. I am starting to think that maybe I am wasting my time with Bukisa and should start focusing more on Xomba, Infobarrel and eHow.

Now I have been writing a few articles everyday for the past month with no potential increase. However, I have not been writing on a broad topic of articles but just on very niche topics. That may be good for a blog but it may not be so good for article writing. There are so many visitors that find article sites like eHow and Bukisa and they are looking for many different things when they visit. I know on my eHow account, I have many different categories that I write about. Maybe that is the reason why I am earning so much and making that 1,000+ page views a day mark.

I am going to try a little experiment with Bukisa and start broadening my topics with it. This month I am going to write about more broad topics to hopefully increase my page views and make more money with it. I will try and keep you updated with the progress but I won't keep any promises. I already have so much stuff to take care of this month so I will definitely let you know what happens in my August earnings report.

Until then, I will start broadening my topics and see how it goes. Hope you enjoyed that.

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Make Money Online with InfoBarrel

I recently just started with another get paid to write website. I have been posting on Xomba for the past couple weeks and have been really impressed with my earnings just for the first month. You will see what I mean when I post my monthly report for July. But Infobarrel is a good site that is similar to Xomba in that you have to give them your Adsense publishing Id and you get a percentage of the Adsense earnings.

Infobarrel gives you 75% of your Adsense earnings which is much higher than Xomba's 50%. Also, they are holding contests on Infobarrel which if you win you can actually earn 90% of your Adsense earnings on the site. That is almost all of your earnings on the website. The thing is, Infobarrel is a fairly new site so it is still trying to get higher rankings on the search engine. I think it is a very promising site that can be a great addition to my passive income stream. I've posted 11 articles on the site since I have joined this week. I plan on making some channels with my Google adsense account to see how well Infobarrel's earnings are. I completed enough articles to get the 90% adsense earnings so I hope there will be a dramatic increase in my Adsense earnings next month.

You can post many types of articles on the site. They are basic articles, how to articles, video posts and review articles. InfoBarrel will review your content before it is posted kind of like Associated Content. However, it will not take long for your content to get approved. Some of my articles got approved in about 2 hours of posting them on Infobarrel. I have gotten a lot of views on my articles which is really good because it just helps to boost my earnings and my Internet popularity. I'm probably going to post a lot more Infobarrel articles in August and see how well I do.

Come back soon to see how my earnings are did in July. Just 2 more days and I can reassess my goals for making great passive income online.

Sign-up with Infobarrel so you can start making money online.

Make Money Online with Xomba

Xomba is a web site where you can make money online. You basically write articles or bookmark web site and you get paid. It is a bit different from the other web sites I write for. You earn money through Google Adsense but you have to have an account with Adsense. A lot of people make some good extra income each month. There are a few that have been a few hundred dollars each month. Xomba is another site that will earn you some solid passive income.

The thing with Xomba is that you have to add your Google Adsense account ID to your Xomba profile. This is how Xomba keeps track of your earnings and how you get paid. In a sense, you are using Xomba to get paid through Google Adsense. Xomba doesn't really pay you, instead, you will get paid through Google Adsense. It is a really good way to make money without a blog.

There are two types of articles you can write on Xomba. They are Xombytes and Xomblurbs. Xombytes are your basic article that you would write. It could be anything from a blog post, a review of a movie, news or story. It can basically be anything you want to write about. The Xomblurb is what is used for social bookmarking. You basically give a brief description of the site and provide a link to the site. It is a great way to promote something.

You can track your earnings with Google Adsense which is great because it is almost on a real time basis. I have been apart of Xomba for a bit now and am making a good amount of income. Which is very surprising since I have been apart of eHow and have just been posting on them for a while.

Click here to Sign-Up with Xomba.com

Make Money Online with Bukisa

Bukisa is another site where you are paid to write articles online. It is a fairly new that has been up for a little less than a year. I have been apart of Bukisa for a while and have learned a lot from how to make money online with it. It is a lot different from eHow and Xomba. But it is still a great addition to earning passive income on the Internet. You can get paid from Bukisa for writing articles, posting videos, audio and even slide shows. So if you get bored of writing articles you can try your hand in other selections. Another unique thing about Bukisa is that they pay all there members on an index scale.

On the site, it is called the Bukisa index and that is how they determine how much they pay you for each 1,000 page views. For example, if the Bukisa index is $4.00, that means every 1,000 page views will earn you 4 bucks. If you have 4,000 pages views you have earn $16. Here are a few tips to making some extra cash with Bukisa.

You should keep in mind that Bukisa will pay you on the amount of page views. Not from adsense, they will only pay you through how many unique visitors you receive. Therefore, you should write more popular topics than usual. Writing for topics that are not very searchable is not the way to go for Bukisa (but that's basically for any writing site online).

Promote your articles as much as you can. It is not as popular as eHow so it would help your page views to submit your articles to social networking groups like digg or reddit. This can really increase the amount of page views you will receive and the amount of money you can earn.

Try to include some back links to your Bukisa article. As you know, Google loves back links so it will increase the rankings of your articles if you do so. Try placing your articles url in your blogs or on other sites like eHow or Xomba. This is a great way to increase your earnings on all of your sites as well.

Get a few referrals. This is an awesome way to earn even more money from Bukisa. You will earn a commission when you sign-up referrals and they start producing content. It is really a great way to earn some solid passive income. You will earn a very high 25% commission from your referrals.

One thing to remember with Bukisa is how they pay you. The minimum is a low $10 which is nice but when you reach it they will pay you the following month. For example, if you earn the $10 minimum in January you will not receive that cash until the end of February. Actually, until March 5 to be precise. I really hope that make some improvements with that but I will still keep writing content and making money with Bukisa until that time.

Also, keep in mind that they will only pay you with Paypal. So if you do not have an account yet you should get one. Paypal is free to join so you do not have to worry about any fees of any kind. It is almost a requirement to have a paypal account if you want to make money online.

Click here to Sign-up with Bukisa.com

Ehow Review: Residual Income Online

Then I found this site called Ehow. Ehow, is basically a site where you can write about anything you wanted to. Whatever is on your mind you can write about it (probably not about porn or any X-rated topics though). The catch is, it has to be in a 'How to" format. So basically, you write something where someone gains knowledge on any topic you have some kind of expertise in. You could write "How to make a 3 cheese Omelette," "How to stop being nervous on a date," "How to shave your Armpit Hair," etc. Anything you want to write about, and can put it in a how to format, you can post on Ehow.


There submission format is very easy to use as well as fast. You can choose to write about a topic or do video. The site than will automatically post it (no waiting periods like associated content) for all the world of Internet users to see. The good thing about Ehow is that shows up very high on search engines. You may be surprised to see how many Ehow articles pop up if you are looking for how to do something.

I checked out the forum, which is almost like a great community, and they have a lot of helpful hints and ideas about making more money from the site. The owners of the web site are very interactive with there member and do several contests every few months. They winners of the contests (which there are no limits of how many people can win) receive up front money (the last one people received about 100 dollars) and a gift (the last gift I saw was a free reusable grocery bag with the EHOW label on it) from the team. There are probably thousands of members on the site with probably a handful of "EHOW Stars." These basically are people who are the high earners (earning anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 dollars or more) on the web site. Some of the members even sell ebooks on there own personal web site that help people earn the best money online at Ehow. I have not yet bought any of them but I will (maybe).


I have been apart of Ehow since January 2009 and have only been heavily posting Ehow articles in May 2009. I had around 400 articles by the mid of June and my daily earnings have been going way up. Back in January through April, I would only get a couple cents here and there every week. But as of mid June 2009 my earnings have gone up to $3.50 a day. Now Ehow is a bit secretive on how you earn your income but it is basically on how many people click on the ads on your article page. The best part is, those earnings will only stay the same or go up from there. The high earnings make an average of $30 to $40 a day. Now even if I or those high earners stop posting they will still reach that $30 to $40 a day average. Now if that is not passive income, tell me what is.

I have also just recently been posting on a site called Bukisa. It is fairly new as of June 2009 so the owners are going through a lot of changes and with page rankings but it is an amazing site. It kind of works like Ehow except you are paid for how many page views you get. There is something on the site called a Bukisa Index and this is how they base there payments on the site. Say the index is 5 dollars, so that means every 1,000 page views you get you will receive 5 bucks. So the object of Bukisa is of course to get the most traffic (visitors) to your articles. They pay you on a monthly basis (like Ehow) through paypal (like Ehow). There are quite a few Bukisa articles appearing on the 1st page of search engines now (including my articles) so it is getting much better in terms of ranking. You should sign-up with Bukisa and Ehow to start making passive income from writing online.